Well, BMW motorcycle engines are being made in China now. Think about that before you decide to throw down 30 large on an ugly two wheeled tractor.
Wow. So the German piece has approximately one-tenth the friction losses, assuming similar mass of the raceway.
The voice is speaking Chinese.
Free Traitors™ have been pushing this cheap Chinese crap on us for almost 25 years.
Oil quenching pits burning, large enough to be observed by BDA crews.
Chinese car parts are a joke. I bought brake rotors that were Made in China and the first hard stop the warped. I mean the very first hard stop.
Cheap is good when it is not your life on the line...
Noisy Tiger tank idler and drive wheels too. That is in addition to the rest of German armor.
The climactic air raid in the original Twelve O'clock High movie, based on the 306th. My first thought too.
My second thought: Chinese industry is very good at producing items of marginal quality, like the Japanese industry of the 1950s. Whether China will wake up the way the Japanese did in the 60s and become rivals for quality is anyone's guess.
Even skateboarders know this.
I need to replace the bearings on my furnace squirrel-cage blower. I’ll make sure I ask for German. Thanks for the heads up.
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Family used to pass a German-owned ball bearing factory on our way down to visit the grandparents in Missouri. Yeah, big sign out front: `FAG Bearings’. (Muffler bearings for the LBGT?)
Read a National Geographic article once about modern manufacturing techniques.
The article featured an “ultra smooth” ball bearing about the size of the average marble.
The manufacturing process was so refined that if the bearing’s diameter were made equal to the earth’s, the largest peak, aka the bearing’s “Mount Everest” would be 14 feet in height.
There are all different kinds of bearings even for the same size. Using “friction free” designed bearings against a standard grade would give you this result. I’m not advocating for Chinese bearings just stating facts.
Without seeing the exact bearing number on the bearing it’s hard to tell.
After the war Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister for Armaments, was interviewed by the Allies. Speer was asked about the Allied strategic bombing campaign.
Speer said that the Allies had made a mistake. Instead dropping some bombs on aircraft factories, and some bombs on oil refineries, etc., the Allies should have thrown everything at just the ball bearing plants. Speer said that would have quickly crippled Germany.
China Insists Toy Exports Are Safe
Possibly isolated cases?
Hogan’s Heroes. Those guys were always taking out ball bearing plants.
Replaced some cable pulleys on my garage door. Originals 20+yrs. old.
Ordered them online. Received 8 pulleys. They have bearings in them.
Half were from Indonesia, half from China.
The Indonesian bearing were acceptable, The Chinese pulleys felt like they had sand in the bearings, awful.
Ended up using the Indonesian and some of the original pulleys.
The 25 y.o. originals were better than the new Chinese ones.
If the Chinese can adulterate a product to make more money, they will. I don’t trust anything they make. Sadly have to buy some of their junk as they are our manufacturing supplier but when i can avoid them , I do.
Esp. foodstuffs.
I can't THINK of two culture more different than China and Germany. Of course China HAS contributed to the world: bubonic plague, bird flus/Asian flu, to name a couple.
The Chinese have the biggest problem with cleanliness of their restaurants, hotels, homes, kitchens, etc. [NOT personal cleanliness]. This is so because cleanliness CO$T$ and one gets NOTHING for it.
Chinese restaurants get closed down the MOST in the West because of this. Their logic: why clean tonight when the restaurant will get JUST as dirty tomorrow?